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Canada marijuana growers use wild bears to guard pot
Police said Wednesday they were astonished to find at least 14 wild black bears guarding an illegal marijuana growing operation after a recent raid on the property in westernmost Canada.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sergeant Fred Mansveld said police believe two growers arrested in the raid had used dog food to lure the animals onto the remote property in southeastern British Columbia, to deter marijuana thieves.
Police commonly find dogs, human guards or booby-traps on Canadian marijuana growing operations or "grow-ops." In comparison, these bears did a very poor job as guard animals when five policemen arrived.
"They were tame, they just sat around watching… at one point one of the bears climbed onto the hood of a police car, sat there for a bit and then jumped off," said Mansveld.
He said the officers involved in the July 30 raid were all familiar with wild animals, and while wary, were not afraid of the bears once they realized the animals were not aggressive.
Black bears are common throughout Canada, and except in the cases of mothers with cubs, usually live solitary lives in the wilderness. It is against provincial law to feed them.
By feeding them, said Dave Webster, a conservation officer with the provincial government who launched an investigation of the case on Wednesday, the marijuana growers delivered "a death sentence for the wild animals."
Webster told AFP "tame" bears are dangerous, because once they?re fed they commonly seek out other people, frequently destroy property, and in very rare cases attack or even kill people.
"If a bear is deemed to be a safety risk and is habituated to human food and not able to feed itself in the wild, it will be destroyed," he explained.
Police, citizens or conservation officers kill untold hundreds of so-called "nuisance" bears annually throughout Canada.
"It's killing animals by kindness," said Mansveld. "It?s terrible, a real shame."
Mansfield said when police entered the house on the property, "we also found a pot belly pig and a little raccoon sleeping on the bed… it was friendly, it tried to climb one officer?s leg."
Police are pictured with two of the 14 wild black bears that were guarding an illegal marijuana growing operation after July 30, 2010 raid on the property in the Christina Lake area of westernmost Canada
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DETROIT — Matt Johnson threw four of his career-high five touchdown passes in the first half and Bowling Green routed No. 16 Northern Illinois 47-27 on Friday night for the Mid-American Conference title, ending the Huskies' shot at playing in a marquee bowl game.
The Northern Illinois (12-1) loss improves the chances of Baylor or Oregon being an at-large team in a BCS bowl game.
Jordan Lynch ran for 126 yards and two TDs for the Huskies to break his own single-season record for yards rushing by a quarterback in major college football, but he didn't take advantage of an opportunity to impress Heisman Trophy voters.
The Falcons (10-3) won a MAC title for the first time since 1992 — just months after Johnson was born.
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Johnson was 21 of 27 for a career-high 393 yards, connected with five teammates for scores and didn't throw an interception.
Bowling Green's Travis Greene had 133 yards rushing to give him 1,555 this year, surpassing the school's single-season record set by Fred Durig in 1951. Greene had a 16-yard TD run to make it 47-20.
Alex Bayer had seven receptions for 124 yards and a TD that gave the Falcons a 31-13 lead at halftime. Ronnie Moore caught four passes for 145 yards and a TD.
Lynch was held to just 35 yards rushing in the first half and when forced to pass, he was often off the mark as he completed just half of his attempts by halftime. He seemed to throw one pass too high, but Juwan Brescacin leaped to snag the football with his left hand in the end zone to tie the game midway through the first quarter.
Tyler Tate's 25-yard field goal with 6:49 left in the first half put Bowling Green ahead for good.
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The next two possessions ended with kickers for both teams missing field goals.
Tate made a 52-yard field goal — the longest of his career by 7 yards — to give Bowling Green a 34-20 lead early in the fourth quarter.
When the outcome was still in doubt, Lynch surpassed his yards rushing total from last season — 1,815 — and will have 1,881 yards rushing going into a lackluster bowl game.
Lynch and the Huskies lost for the first time since Jan. 1, 2013, when Florida State dominated them in the Orange Bowl.
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The European Space Agency (ESA) is contemplating smashing a spacecraft into an asteroid.
The proposed mission, called AIDA (for "Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment"), would consist of a pair of spacecraft (sadly, not named Armageddon and Deep Impact) flung at the near-Earth asteroid 65803 Didymos. Didymos is actually a binary object consisting of a large primary mass and much smaller secondary satellite mass. The idea with the AIDA mission, which would take place near the end of 2022, is to accelerate a small kinetic impactor spacecraft to a relative velocity of 6.25 kilometers per second and crash it into the secondary Didymos mass. A second spacecraft would hold off a short distance away and measure the orbital deflection imparted by the more than 300kg impactor spacecraft.
The two spacecraft halves of the mission are sponsored by two different agencies. The impactor spacecraft is called DART, for Double Asteroid Redirection Test, and is designed by the US Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. The observer is called AIM, for Asteroid Impact Monitor, and is designed by ESA. DART is a mostly uninstrumented craft, equipped with only a single imager for targeting itself at Didymos, while ESA's AIM spacecraft contains a suite of sensors designed to help it observe Didymos before, during, and after DART's impact.
A crash at 6.25km/second qualifies as a "hypervelocity" impact. At that kind of speed, materials involved in the impact aren't just deformed or displaced, but rather are actually vaporized, transforming into glowing plasma. ESA's announcement page notes that in addition to simply understanding the mechanics of impact, doing it at "hypervelocity" gives the added bonus of being able to study in miniature the conditions that might have existed in the earlier stages of our solar system. The smaller Didymos satellite into which the DART spacecraft will crash has a diameter of 150 meters and a measured density of about 1.7g/cm3; assuming that the asteroid is a perfect sphere (which it obviously isn't), this gives us a rough upper bound of about 3×109kg for the smaller asteroid's mass, or about 3 million metric tons. Smashing 300kg of spacecraft into the asteroid won't "blow up" the asteroid or anything dramatic, but it will greatly help scientists understand how asteroid deflection might work—or if it's even practical.
The study's stated goals are merely the beginning of the project, though. ESA is publishing all the AIDA materials now and is calling for public comment on the mission, seeking suggestions for additional experiments which could be done with the spacecraft, either ground-based or space-based. The formal call for experiments will be issued on February 1, 2013 on ESA's Near Earth Object page.


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If you've seen In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States, you know that the exhibition opens with a film by the Maya Deren, the great avant-garde filmmaker. Friday night in the Bing Theater we will be dedicated to Deren. Starting at 7:30 we will screen all of her completed shorts, including Meshes of the Afternoon (shot in Los Angeles) and The Very Eye of Night, as well as The Witch's Cradle, an unfinished collaboration with Marcel Duchamp. These will be followed by the 2002 documentary In the Mirror of Maya Deren, which includes outtakes from her films, interviews with her peers, and archival footage of Deren herself discussing her life and work.
You may as well get comfortable in the Bing, because starting Saturday at noon we will once again screen Christian Marclay's The Clock for its full twenty-four hours. The screening is free from noon Saturday to noon Sunday, first come first served. (A word of warning: the late night hours tend to be popular, so expect a full house leading up to midnight and plan your visit accordingly.) If you're hungry, Ray's will be open late on Saturday night to accommodate all you Clock-watchers—'til 2 am. (Our new neighbors, For Your Art, will also have donuts.)
Outside of the Bing, we've got plenty of exhibitions to see, starting with the aforementioned In Wonderland, as well as exhibitions on Ellsworth Kelly and Robert Adams, among others. The latter two are both in BCAM. This weekend also marks your last chance to see the works on view on the top floor of that building, including Jeff Koons' Balloon Dog and Cracked Egg (Red). Those works have been on view since BCAM's opening in 2008, and we are deinstalling the gallery to put some new works on display later this summer.
Sunday as always is a great time to bring the kids for Andell Family Sunday art-making activities. Learn about quilt-making and textile art and check out the small exhibition Common Places: Printing, Embroidery, and the Art of Global Mapping.
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EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio (TheBlaze/AP) -- Authorities responding to a report of a foul odor from a home ultimately discovered three bodies and arrested a registered sex offender who sent police and volunteers through a poor Ohio neighborhood in a search for more victims Sunday, officials said.
East Cleveland residents watch the scene Sunday, July 21, 2013, close to where three bodies were recently found in East Cleveland, Ohio. The bodies, believed to be female, were found about 100 to 200 yards apart, and a 35-year-old man was arrested and is a suspect in all three deaths, though he has not yet been charged, East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton said Saturday. (AP)
East Cleveland Police Chief Ralph Spotts had cautioned searchers to be prepared to find one or two more victims. But after a daylong search that included 40 abandoned houses and other areas, no more bodies were found.
Spotts identified the suspect as 35-year-old Michael Madison. He said Madison is expected to be formally charged Monday, but did not elaborate.
Mayor Gary Norton said the suspect has indicated he might have been influenced by Cleveland serial killer Anthony Sowell, who was convicted in 2011 of murdering 11 women and sentenced to death.
It's the latest in a series of high-profile cases involving the disappearance of women from the Cleveland area.
The odor led to the discovery Friday of one body in a garage. Two others were found Saturday - one in a backyard and the other in the basement of a vacant house. The bodies of the three women, all wrapped in plastic bags, were found about 100 to 200 yards apart, and authorities believed the victims were killed in the last six to 10 days.
Searchers rummaging through vacant houses in the same neighborhood Sunday were warned by Spotts to brace themselves for the smell of rotting bodies and to look out for trash bags that might conceal a body.
Spotts indicated later Sunday that the suspect's comments haven't provided clarity on whether more bodies might be found.
"He really hasn't stated that there's any more, but he hasn't said anything that would make us think that there's not," Spotts said.
A garage is shown Sunday, July 21, 2013, where a body was found recently in East Cleveland, Ohio. (AP)
Norton said authorities have "lots of reasons" to suspect there are more victims, but he refused to say why.
Norton said Madison, who was arrested Friday after a police standoff, has indicated to authorities he might have been influenced by Sowell.
"He said some things that led us to believe that in some way, shape, or form, Sowell might be an influence," Norton told The Associated Press.
It wasn't immediately clear whether Madison has an attorney, and no one was commenting Sunday afternoon at the address his mother's home.
All three bodies were found in the fetal position, wrapped in several layers of trash bags, Norton said. He said detectives continue to interview Madison, who used his mother's address in Cleveland in registering as a sex offender, the mayor said.
Cuyahoga County medical examiner Dr. Thomas P. Gilson said Sunday that the bodies were in advanced stages of decomposition and that it would take several days to identify them and how they died.
About three dozen volunteers, including community anti-crime activists, fanned out Sunday morning across yards, through vacant houses and along a railroad to help police search. The chief advised them to watch for missing floor boards as they looked inside houses. One young searcher crawled under a board screwed across a door to go inside a house to search.
"The MO of each body we've found so far was wrapped up in a lot of garbage bags, so if you see anything .... and it might not look like it's a body, but it could be - because each bag, the way he had each person was in a fetal position," Spotts told searchers before they began. "It didn't look like a person could actually fit in the bag."
East Cleveland police officers search a neighborhood Sunday, July 21, 2013, near where three bodies were recently found, in East Cleveland, Ohio. (AP)
Pam Butcher, 55, said she came out to help search her neighborhood because she was disturbed by the death and said she knew other volunteers were, too.
"They are concerned because it could have been one of their family members," she said. "It could have been one of their kids. It could have been one of their nieces. It could have been one of their aunts."
One neighbor, Nathenia Crosby, said she was familiar with Madison and had seen him walking through the neighborhood. She said she had told him to stop chatting with her daughter and warned him after seeing him talk to her cousin.
"It's very scary, especially when he used to be talking to my daughter," said Crosby, 48. "But I told him he was too old to be talking to my daughter because she was only 19. When I found out how old he was, I said, `You need to move on, she's too young.' "
A day earlier, police, FBI, the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation and the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Department went through yards and abandoned houses over about three blocks and used dogs trained to find cadavers.
The neighborhood in East Cleveland, which has some 17,000 residents, has many abandoned houses and authorities want to be thorough, the mayor said.
"Hopefully, we pray to God, this is it," he said.
The case brings to mind recent notorious Cleveland searches that involved missing women.
In May, three women who separately vanished a decade ago were found captive in a run-down house. Ariel Castro, a former school bus driver, has pleaded not guilty to nearly 1,000 counts of kidnap, rape and other crimes.
In 2009, Sowell was arrested after a woman escaped from his house and said she had been raped there. Police found the mostly nude bodies of 11 women in garbage bags and plastic sheets throughout the home.
Prosecutors described him in court papers as "the worst offender in the history of Cuyahoga County and arguably the State of Ohio."
He was found guilty in 2011 and sentenced to death.
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BOSTON — With security tight along the 26.2-mile course, nearly 36,000 runners set out from the Boston Marathon starting line Monday in a "Boston Strong" show of resilience a year after the bombing that turned the race into a scene of carnage.
To the delight of many in the crowd, an American won the men's division for the first time in more than three decades, dominating a field that included many athletes who were prevented from finishing last year.
"I showed up, I'm back, and I am going to finish what I didn't finish last year," said Mary Cunningham, 50, of St. Petersburg, Fla., who was stopped a mile short of the finish line by the explosions on April 15, 2013.
The two pressure-cooker bombs that went off near the finish line killed three people and wounded more than 260 in a hellish spectacle of torn limbs, smoke and broken glass.
Police were deployed in force along the route, with helicopters circling above and bomb-sniffing dogs checking through trash cans. Officers were posted on roofs.
Boston Marathon race director Dave McGillivray said it had been a long and difficult year.
"We're taking back our race," he said. "We're taking back the finish line."
A total of 35,755 athletes were registered to run — the second-largest field in its history, with many coming to show support for the event and the city that was traumatized by the attack on its signature sporting event.
"I can't imagine the number of emotions that are going to be there," said Katie O'Donnell, a doctor at Children's Hospital who was stopped less than a mile from the end last year. "I think I'm going to start crying at the starting line, and I'm not sure I'll stop until I cross the finish line."
Buses bearing the message "Boston Strong" dropped off runners at the starting line in the town of Hopkinton. A banner on one building read: "You are Boston Strong. You Earned This."
Among the signs lining the end of the route was one paying tribute to 8-year-old Martin Richard, the youngest of those killed in the bombing.
"No more hurting people. Peace," read the sign. A photograph of Martin holding a poster he made for school with those words was published after his death.
Among the spectators cheering runners near the finish line was Jeff Bauman, who lost his legs in the bombing. It was the first time he had returned to the area since the attack.
"It feels great" to be back, he said. "I feel very safe."
Joe Ebert, 61, of Hampton, N.H., was cheering on his son-in-law near the spot in downtown Boston where the bombs went off. He was in the same area last year at the time of the attack.
"I wanted to be in this spot," said Ebert, who wore a jacket and medal from when he ran the race in 2010. "Just wanted to let them know that they can't beat us down. I think it makes us all stronger when something like that happens."
Sabrina Dello Russo, 38, of South Boston, was running her first marathon for a good friend, Roseann Sdoia, who lost her right leg in the bombing.
"She is my inspiration from day one last year when I saw her in the ICU. Every run I do, she is in the back of my head, and she will be keeping me going today," Dello Russo said.
While Gov. Deval Patrick said there had been no specific threats against the race or the city, spectators at the 118th running of the world's oldest annual marathon had to go through tight checkpoints before being allowed near the starting and finish lines.
Fans hoping to watch near the finish line were encouraged to leave behind strollers and backpacks. Police set up checkpoints along the marathon route to examine backpacks, particularly outside subway station exits. And runners had to use clear plastic bags for their belongings.
More than 100 cameras were installed along the route in Boston, and race organizers said 50 or so observation points would be set up around the finish line to monitor the crowd.
Runner Scott Weisberg, 44, from Birmingham, Ala., said he had trouble sleeping the night before.
"With everything that happened last year, I can't stop worrying about it happening again. I know the chances are slim to none, but I can't help having a nervous pit in my stomach," Weisberg said.
Race organizers expanded the field from its recent cap of 27,000 to make room for more than 5,000 runners who were still on the course last year at the time of the explosions, for friends and relatives of the victims, and for those who made the case that they were "profoundly impacted" by the attack.
Kenya's Rita Jeptoo won the women's race in a course-record 2 hours, 18 minutes, 57 seconds, defending a championship from last year. She had been hoping this year for a title she could enjoy.
"It was very difficult to be happy. People were injured and children died," she had said of last year's marathon. "If I'm going to win again, I hope I can be happier and to show people, like I was supposed to last year."
American Meb Keflizighi won the men's title in 2 hours, 8 minutes, 37 seconds. Cheers rose up as word of the first American man to win in Boston since 1983 spread through the pack of runners.
Keflizighi had the names of last year's victims written in black marker on the corners of his race bib.
On Twitter, President Barack Obama congratulated Keflizighi and Shalane Flanagan, the top American finisher among the women, "for making American proud!"
"All of today's runners showed the world the meaning of #BostonStrong," Obama wrote.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said Keflezighi's becoming the first American man to win the marathon in 31 years was "quite an accomplishment and a great year to do it."
Runners were expected to remain on the course for several hours after the winners crossed the finish line. Last year, the bombs went off at 2:49 p.m., as spectators crowded around the finish the line to cheer the still-arriving runners about five hours into the race.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 20, is awaiting trial in the attack and could get the death penalty. Prosecutors said he and his older brother — ethnic Chechens who came to the U.S. from Russia more than a decade ago — carried out the attack in retaliation for U.S. wars in Muslim lands.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died in a shootout with police days after the bombings.
One runner Monday, Peter Riddle, a 45-year-old Bostonian, said he suffered post-traumatic stress disorder from being at the finish line last year.
"I did a lot of talking this year, but running has helped me resolve a lot of things in my head," he said. "Running the marathon this year and running down Boylston Street will help me find peace and help me move forward."


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For many Americans, the tobacco industry's disingenuousness became a matter of public record during a Congressional hearing on April 14, 1994. There, under the withering glare of Representative Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California, appeared the chief executives of the seven largest American tobacco companies.
Each executive raised his right hand and solemnly swore to tell the whole truth about his business. In sequential testimony, each one stated that he did not believe tobacco was a health risk and that his company had taken no steps to manipulate the levels of nicotine in its cigarettes.
Thirty years after the famous surgeon general's report declaring cigarette smoking a health hazard, the tobacco executives, it seemed, were among the few who believed otherwise.
But it was not always that way. Allan M. Brandt, a medical historian at Harvard, insists that recognizing the dangers of cigarettes resulted from an intellectual process that took the better part of the 20th century. He describes this fascinating story in his new book, "The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America" (Basic Books).
In contrast to the symbol of death and disease it is today, from the early 1900s to the 1960s the cigarette was a cultural icon of sophistication, glamour and sexual allure — a highly prized commodity for one out of two Americans.
Many advertising campaigns from the 1930s through the 1950s extolled the healthy virtues of cigarettes. Full-color magazine ads depicted kindly doctors clad in white coats proudly lighting up or puffing away, with slogans like "More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette."
Early in the 20th century, opposition to cigarettes took a moral rather than a health-conscious tone, especially for women who wanted to smoke, although even then many doctors were concerned that smoking was a health risk.
The 1930s were a period when many Americans began smoking and the most significant health effects had not yet developed. As a result, the scientific studies of the era often failed to find clear evidence of serious pathology and had the perverse effect of exonerating the cigarette.
The years after World War II, however, were a time of major breakthroughs in epidemiological thought. In 1947, Richard Doll and A. Bradford Hill of the British Medical Research Council created a sophisticated statistical technique to document the association between rising rates of lung cancer and increasing numbers of smokers.
The prominent surgeon Evarts A. Graham and a medical student, Ernst L. Wynder, published a landmark article in 1950 comparing the incidence of lung cancer in their nonsmoking and smoking patients at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. They concluded that "cigarette smoking, over a long period, is at least one important factor in the striking increase in bronchogenic cancer."
Predictably, the tobacco companies — and their expert surrogates — derided these and other studies as mere statistical arguments or anecdotes rather than definitions of causality.
Dr. Brandt, who has exhaustively combed through the tobacco companies' internal memorandums and research documents, amply demonstrates that Big Tobacco understood many of the health risks of their products long before the 1964 surgeon general's report.
He also describes the concerted disinformation campaigns these companies waged for more than half a century — simultaneously obfuscating scientific evidence and spreading the belief that since everyone knew cigarettes were dangerous at some level, smoking was essentially an issue of personal choice and responsibility rather than a corporate one.
In the 1980s, scientists established the revolutionary concept that nicotine is extremely addictive. The tobacco companies publicly rejected such claims, even as they took advantage of cigarettes' addictive potential by routinely spiking them with extra nicotine to make it harder to quit smoking. And their marketing memorandums document advertising campaigns aimed at youngsters to hook whole new generations of smokers.
In 2004, Dr. Brandt was recruited by the Department of Justice to serve as its star expert witness in the federal racketeering case against Big Tobacco and to counter the gaggle of witnesses recruited by the industry. According to their own testimony, most of the 29 historians testifying on behalf of Big Tobacco did not even consult the industry's internal research or communications. Instead, these experts focused primarily on a small group of skeptics of the dangers of cigarettes during the 1950s, many of whom had or would eventually have ties to the tobacco industry.
"I was appalled by what the tobacco expert witnesses had written," Dr. Brandt said in a recent interview. "By asking narrow questions and responding to them with narrow research, they provided precisely the cover the industry sought."
Apparently, the judge, Gladys Kessler of Federal District Court for the District of Columbia, agreed. Last August, she concluded that the tobacco industry had engaged in a 40-year conspiracy to defraud smokers about tobacco's health dangers. Her opinion cited Dr. Brandt's testimony more than 100 times.
Dr. Brandt acknowledges that there are pitfalls in combining scholarship with battle against the deadly pandemic of cigarette smoking, but he says he sees little alternative.
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According to an indictment unsealed this week, the four alleged members of the BitTorrent movie release group IMAGiNE have now been charged with one count of "Conspiracy to Commit Criminal Copyright Infringement," four counts of "Criminal Copyright Infringement," and one count of "Distribution of a Work Being Prepared for Commercial Distribution." Each count brings a maximum penalty of up to five years in prison.
The group, which TorrentFreak called "one of the P2P scene's most prominent release groups," was busted up by federal authorities in September 2011. It is not very common for BitTorrent-related groups to be split apart with federal criminal charges brought against them.
Court documents filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia report that the lead defendant, Jeramiah B. Perkins (aliases: "Butch Perkins," "Stash," and "theestas") was arrested and then released on bail on Monday. The other defendants are Gregory Cherwonik, 53, of New York, Willie Lambert, 57, of Pennsylvania, and Sean Lovelady, 27, of California.
The four are accused of running their BitTorrent ring from September 2009 to September 2011, where they allegedly would "cam" new movies showing in theaters. While one person was capturing the video, someone else would capture the audio portion in theaters and drive-ins. Then, according to the indictment, the defendants would allegedly "digitally refine" and "edit" the audio and video files before releasing them over BitTorrent.
Specifically, the group is charged with seeding copies of The Men Who Stare At Goats, Avatar, Clash of the Titans, and others. In some cases, they took advantage of the movie theater's infrared or FM audio system, usually used by people with hearing impairments. Both systems work by transmitting the audio from the control room to individual headsets equipped with a receiver.
In the indictment, Perkins, 40, is quoted as telling Lambert on the group's message board in July 2010: "I called every local cinema to see what they broadcasted in," adding that "I told them a bs sob story bro…told the manager i had a hearing impaired daughter and she had a phobia about other peoples heads being on there in house equipment so i told them i was going to buy her one, so they would find out and tell me then…"
It appears that the group would often bring their own infrared receivers and would record audio directly from that device. Five days later, Perkins told the group to "wear the IR receiver high around your neck and just put the plugged in recorder in your pocket or somewhere hidden."
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Well here's something I'm not sure many people on here know: I'm obsessed with politics. It's pretty hard to get me to shut up about it in real life and I follow a lot of it (too much). So by rights you would assume that every time an especially political book comes out that I'd be excited to read it… but that's not the case at all.
You see, what with all the podcasts and articles I read, I can't say I'm especially excited to read books that moralise to me about matters that I'm pretty sure they know nothing about (well the arguments often use generally betray that)
Now I'm not talking about books where it's pretty clear that they'll be political- especially non-fiction– because they're "does what it says on the tin" kind of books. And if you pick up a can of beans and are disappointed when you find that it is in fact a can of beans, then that's on you. All I can say about that is I went about 6 months subconsciously avoiding any fiction which is overtly political– and now that I know I'm doing it, I'm gonna keep at it deliberately.
Because the truth is- and forgive me for making the political personal- I'm a bit tired of it all. I'm tired of the constant intrusion of politics into art, I'm tired of the fact I can't go five minutes without being clobbered over the head with someone's view, I'm tired of feeling like there's a good chance I'll have to defend my political views or skirt over it entirely if I do decide to share my thoughts on a book. For goodness sakes- I'm a book reviewer- not an economist, not a social commentator, not a politician.
Yet there seems to be a movement of people- especially in the contemporary world- who are determined to bring messages into books, make every romance political, overpower us all with their propagandistic flair. *Newsflash*: that's not how it works, nor how it should work (crazy idea, I know, but if you want to be informed you have to read some pretty boring things). I don't think anyone's mind was ever changed by a throwaway line in a fluffy romance… just sayin'.
And what I've found is that when it comes to reviewing books which have sneak attack politics embedded into their core is that I don't feel comfortable objectively discussing what I had an issue with– which makes my job as a reviewer nigh on impossible. I can't lie and I can't get into the ins and outs without writing an off-topic essay. And I don't especially want to (see above: not a politician, don't want to be either). Nor do I fancy being dragged over the coals for my political views. It's not really relevant.
Of course, everyone has the right to read what they want; everyone has the right to write what they want. All I'll say, for people planning on shoehorning politics into their books, spare a thought for us poor political junkies who might end up reading it. It's not necessary all the damn time.
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A 524 credit score is a poor credit score. It makes it very difficult to qualify for credit or even apply for an apartment but it can absolutely be improved.Build My Credit
Your credit score plays an important role in your financial life, affecting your ability to borrow money and how much you have to pay for loans.
Like grades in school, your credit score is a number, but unlike the 100-point scale most people are familiar with, credit scores use a scale from 300 – 850. If your score is 524 (or anything below 580), lenders see you as having a poor credit score.
Understanding how credit scores work, the different scoring ranges, how a poor score affects you, and how to improve your score can be helpful if you're considering applying for a loan in the future.
Your credit score attempts to offer a numerical representation of your creditworthiness. The idea is that lenders can look at your credit score and quickly know whether you'll pay back a loan.
There are three major credit bureaus in the United States, Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion that track your interactions with credit and debt. They use the information they gather to generate a credit report and then use a proprietary formula, such as the FICO score formula, to produce your credit score.
There are five factors that influence your credit score.
The most influential is your payment history. This is simply a measure of how many payments you've made compared to the number of payments you've missed or submitted late. Every timely payment helps your score while missed and late payments hurt it. A single late payment can cause a big drop in your score, so your priority when trying to maintain your credit should be to make all of your payments on time.
The next most important factor is the amount you owe. This measures both your total debt, as well as your debt compared to your credit card limits. The less you've borrowed, the better it is for your credit. If you have a lot of debt or max out your credit cards, it can lower your score.
The length of your credit history also plays a role in your score. The longer you've had credit, the higher your score will be. Lenders also look for borrowers that keep credit accounts, like credit cards, open for a long time. The older your average account is, the better it is for your score.
The least impactful aspects of your score are your credit mix and your new accounts.
Credit mix refers to the different types of loans that exist. If you have experience with different types of credit, such as a home loan, student loan, credit card, and/or personal loan, that will help your score. Someone who has only ever had a credit card won't get as many points in this section.
Each time you apply for a new account, whether you get it or not, the credit bureaus note that in your file. Each application will drop your score by a few points. Lots of applications in a short time can really hurt your score.
The impact of each application decreases over time until they fall off your report after two years.
Other things, like having accounts in collections from unpaid bills or having a bankruptcy in your history can also reduce your credit score.
It's important to know that credit scores aren't perfect. They only look at how you've used and interacted with credit in the past. You could have millions in the bank, but if you defaulted on the only loan you've ever had, you'd have a bad credit score. Similarly, you could be destitute but have fantastic credit if you've always paid your bills on time.
Because credit scores aren't a perfect predictor of a borrower's ability to repay a loan, they aren't the only thing that lenders look at. Still, they play a major role in your ability to borrow money, so it's important to understand how they work.
Credit scores fall within a range of 300 – 850, which means there is a wide range of scores. Lenders often lump borrowers with similar credit scores together to make it easier to make lending decisions.
The typical credit score ranges are:
That means that if you have a credit score of 524, you have poor credit. This is also below the subprime threshold that lenders will even consider for offering credit.
Not every score in every range is equal. Someone with a credit score of 300 is likely to struggle to qualify for any loans while someone with a score of 570 is more likely to find a willing lender depending on the scoring model used. Still, these ranges are a useful way to get a quick idea of how lenders see you.
Your credit score can affect you in many ways and having poor credit can make some aspects of your life more expensive or difficult.
One of the most obvious effects of having poor credit is that it can make it more difficult to qualify for loans.
When you apply for new credit, whether it's a mortgage or a credit card, lenders will take a look at your credit report. They want to make sure that you have a good track record and are likely to repay your debts.
If you have poor credit, odds are good that you've missed payments in the past, have bills in collections, or have a bankruptcy in your history. Lenders that see these things in your credit report might not want to take the risk that you'll miss payments on a new loan.
In some cases, you can get trapped in a cycle of applying for a loan, getting denied for poor credit, and having the application show up on your report, dropping your score further. When you go to apply with a different lender, you'll have an even worse credit score when the lender examines your credit report.
If you do find a lender that's willing to give you a chance and offer you a loan, you're likely to have to pay a higher interest rate than other borrowers. That means that you'll pay more each month and more overall to borrow the same amount of money.
These differences can often be significant. For example, Chase offers interest rate estimates for auto loans on its website. As of December 9th, 2020, the bank estimated an interest rate of 3.39% for a car loan (2020 Ford) to customers living in Massachusetts and who have excellent credit.
If that borrower had fair credit instead, the rate would jump to 14.84%.
If the loan is for $20,000 with a term of four years, the borrower with excellent credit will pay $446.14 per month for a total of $21,414.72 over the life of the loan. The borrower with fair credit will pay $554.99 each month for a total of $26,639.52.
Having a worse credit score costs the borrower more than $100 with each monthly payment and $5,000 over the life of the loan.
For larger, or longer-term loans, such as a mortgage loan, the difference in cost can be even more stark. Even if you qualify for loans with poor credit and a sizable down payment, you may struggle to afford them.
Having poor credit can affect more than just your interactions with lenders and debt. It can affect other aspects of your life as well.
For example, if you move to a new apartment or home and want to sign up for utilities or internet service, the provider might ask you to provide a cash deposit. While paying utility bills in a timely manner won't help your credit, missing payments and having bills sent to collections can damage your credit.
Utility companies, just like lenders, want to know that their customers will pay their bills. If your utility company thinks that you're at risk of missing payments, it might make you offer a cash deposit to reduce its risks. That can make moving into a new home and connecting utilities even more expensive.
If you're shopping for a new apartment, there's a good chance that your landlord is going to run a background check on you before offering you a lease. Some lenders, depending on where you live, may check your credit report to make sure you'll pay the rent on time each month.
If a landlord checks your credit and sees that you have a poor credit score, they may decide not to let you rent an apartment. If you live in a hot housing market, you may have to settle for less desirable accommodations because landlords won't rent to you.
Some states allow insurance companies to check your credit score and use that information when determining your insurance rates. For example, if you apply for auto insurance, a poor credit score may cause the insurer to charge more each month for the same amount of coverage.
Some states, including Massachusetts, California, and Hawaii forbid this practice and some insurers don't look at your credit even where it's permitted. However, your credit can play a big role in your premiums when lenders do look at it. Some reports show that drivers with poor credit pay twice as much for coverage as those with excellent credit.
When you apply for a new job, your potential employer is highly likely to run a background check before extending an offer. Sometimes, the background check will include a credit check, especially if you'll be in a position where you have access to the company's financial accounts.
Employers want to know that the people they employ can be trusted to make financial decisions and trusted with the company's money. If you have poor credit or a lot of debt, an employer may think there's a risk that you'll make poor financial decisions or even use company funds for personal reasons. This can lead to you not getting jobs you're qualified for.
If you have a poor credit score, there are things you can do to work toward a higher credit score.
The amount of debt that you have is one of the primary factors in determining your credit score. If you have a lot of debt, one of the first things you should do to start building good credit is paying down your debts.
You don't have to do this all at once. As you pay down your balances, your credit score will slowly improve. The important thing is to make progress and to avoid racking up additional debt. Make sure to make at least the minimum payment on each of your loans (this will also help with building a good payment history). Where you can, make additional payments to pay down your debts faster.
If you have credit cards, try to avoid using them while you pay down the balances. This will reduce the amount of interest that accrues and let you reduce your credit utilization.
A credit builder loan is a special type of loan that you can use to build your credit, even if you have a poor credit score. This is one of the simplest ways to build credit and some services offer automated credit building services that make it even simpler for you to build your credit.
Usually, these loans are for small amounts, such as a few hundred dollars. Instead of disbursing the money to you, instead, the lender will put the money into a savings account on your behalf. Like a typical loan, each month, you'll get a bill that you have to pay. When you pay the loan off, the lender will release the savings account to you.
In this way, a credit builder loan is very similar to a forced savings plan, except that it helps achieve better credit.
As you pay off your credit builder loan, you can monitor your increases through a free credit score service such as Harvest.
One situation that many people with poor credit find themselves in is having poor credit, but not having a credit card or loan that they can use to rebuild their credit score.
It turns into a chicken and egg problem. Without a credit card or loan, you can't build a history of timely payments, but without that history, you can't get a loan.
A secured credit card can be one way around this. When you get a secured credit card (typically a Visa or Mastercard issued by a bank or credit union) you have to give the lender a security deposit, typically equal to your credit limit. The lender hangs on to your deposit. If you fail to make a payment on your credit card, the lender can take the deposit to cover its loss. In this way, lenders who offer secured credit cards take on almost no risk, which means it's much easier to qualify for a secured card.
The drawback, of course, is that you need to have enough cash to make the deposit. Usually, you'll have to provide a deposit of at least $200, though there are some options with lower minimum deposits. The good news is that you'll get the deposit back when you graduate to an unsecured credit card or close the account.
Many secured card issuers also charge high fees. Before applying, make sure you understand the fee structure and look for a card that doesn't charge annual fees.
To help build and maintain a good credit score, one of the best things that you can do is sign up for automatic bill payments.
Almost every lender has an option to sign up for automatic payments and you can usually customize how much you want to pay automatically. Whenever you get a new loan or credit card, sign up for automatic payments and you can be sure that you'll never miss a payment and damage your credit.
Ideally, you'll sign up for automatic payments for your full credit card balance. If you do, you'll never have to worry about paying interest. Still, signing up to make at least the minimum payment automatically prevents you from missing due dates and still leaves you free to make a full payment manually.
The credit bureaus generate your credit score using the information contained in your credit report. If there's a mistake in your credit report, the credit bureaus will calculate your score incorrectly.
It's worth taking the time to check your credit report for errors. There are many services that let you view a copy of your report and many lenders and card issuers will let you see a copy of your report as a benefit of having an account.
You can also use annualcreditreport.com to request a copy of your report. By federal law, you're entitled to a free copy of your report from each credit bureau once per year.
If you notice any mistakes that may damage your credit, reach out to the credit bureau to have it remove the mistake. Depending on the severity of the issue, this can significantly boost your score.
Having a poor credit score, such as a score of 524, can have a significant impact on your financial life. With these tips, you can understand how a poor credit score will affect you and what steps you can take to improve that score.
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As someone working behind the scenes at LACMA, I've been aware of Michael Heizer's Levitated Mass for a long time now, mostly looking at drawings the artist made and hearing it described by the two people here closest to the artist and the artwork, Michael Govan and John Bowsher. So it was a great thrill last week to head over to the quarry in Riverside where one part of the artwork, a 340-ton boulder, currently resides. As you may have read in the Los Angeles Times last week, transporting this monolith is a challenge—to put it mildly:
LACMA is working with Emmert International, a company that specializes in moving "extreme objects" like nuclear generators and missiles, says project manager John Bowsher. Emmert is building a custom "transporter" around the boulder that will likely be 200 feet long and almost three freeway lanes wide. A road will first have to be carved out of the quarry; then the transporter will travel to LACMA at night, on closed roads and at less than 10 mph, led by a police escort. The approximately 85-mile journey, normally a one and half hour drive, will take a circuitous route lasting a week to 10 days.
Standing in the quarry and seeing the beginnings of Emmert's transporter being assembled around the boulder, my sense of scale was thrown for a loop. The boulder, for instance, is 21 feet tall and 340 tons—that's big!—but it was dwarfed by the larger mountain from which it was blasted a few years ago. Once it arrives at LACMA it will rise to the height of the Resnick Pavilion, its soon-to-be neighbor.
It's also hard to wrap your head around just how large this transporter is going to be. But when I took this photo of a jeep parked next to the transporter, I got a better sense of its gargantuan nature. This is what "200 feet long and almost three freeway lanes wide" looks like.
Of course, the boulder is only one part of Heizer's sculpture. I didn't have to travel as far to see the other component: construction is well underway outside of the Resnick Pavilion for the 456-foot-long slot through which you'll walk to experience the monolith rising above you.
456 feet. That's big too. A little more than one-and-a-half football fields big. What you see above is only a portion of its length, as the entire slot has not yet been created–that's because the boulder needs to roll through campus first, on that huge transporter, so it can be installed. We thought it prudent not to put a huge trench in the transporter's way.
As construction progresses, and especially once the monolith arrives, the monumental presence, or monumental negative presence, of the slot will become more apparent to the concept of the overall artwork. As fascinating as it is to talk about the transport of the gigantic boulder, the artwork is not, simply, a boulder. There is an experiential component to the work, as you descend through the slot to a depth of fifteen feet on your approach to the monolith, pass under it, and then ascend to the other side. The walls of the slot itself are big–more than twice the height of the average adult!
Levitated Mass is still a few months away from being finished, so for the moment we're still left to visualize what the end product will look and feel like. One thing is certain: it will be an experience not easily forgotten.
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Monger finally signs with Austin Peay soccer
It has been a while since Merritt Monger knew where she was going to play soccer collegiately. But that doesn't mean she hasn't been thinking about it nearly every second of the day.
"Since Oct. 4 of 2011," said Monger, when asked when she committed to verbally sign with the Austin Peay Lady Governors. "I am anxious to get there. Each day I think about getting there."
The Lady Wildcats midfielder finally put her name on the dotted line Wednesday in a ceremony with the team after school after playing for 15 years.
"There were those days when I didn't really want to go to practice but ... I realize that it wasn't all for nothing," Monger said. "It's finally amounted to something I can be proud in."
Monger will follow in her parents footsteps to APSU. Her dad, Scott, played football for the Govs and mom, Leigh, cheered. But it wasn't the first choice, she had to see the school for herself to find out why her parents went to the Clarksville, Tenn., school.
"At first I didn't want to go to Austin Peay because my parents went there because I wanted to do something on my own," Merrit said. "But once I went there on my own, it sold me.
"As soon as I stepped on campus I already felt I was at home."
Four club members on Monger's Knoxville Club team — including three on her team — will join her at Austin Peay. She also said a friend from Memphis will join her.
Monger said she initially thinks she will study business but isn't 100 percent sure on what she will major in.
The Lady Govs went 9-8-1 last year and made it to the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament finals before losing to UT Martin.
Monger, a All-State, All-Region and All-District selection, leaves Oak Ridge after playing in 86 games, including starting all 21 her senior season. She is No. 5 on the all-time goals scored list at ORHS with 76 and No. 4 in points scored, 176, and points per game, 2.12.
Robert Holder can be contacted at (865) 220-5508.


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